Harrison County came to Alexandria on Tuesday as the 19th Ranked team in the Commonwealth, sporting a 21-2 record.  Our two teams played scoreless baseball through two complete innings, before the Breds erupted for six runs in the third.  A double, sacrifice, single another sacrifice followed by another single, two walks, an error, a hit batter, and for all intents and purposes this one was over.  Senior Brian Vaughn started and went the distance for the Breds, improving to 5-1 and maintaining his 0.28 ERA.  To our credit, we did not let Vaughn bully us, as only three Mustangs went down on strikes in this one against a blue-chip pitcher, and we did touch him up for 5 hits.  The Mustangs stranded a number of runners as Harrison County committed three errors and Vaughn issued 3 free passes.  In addition to their six run bust-out in the third they tacked on four more runs in the sixth to seal the deal.  Ben Volmer went three complete, allowing seven runs on seven hits, with five of them earned.  He passed the baton to Will Wyrick who hurled two creditable innings allowing a single run on one hit.  Luke Bertsch was not so fortunate giving up for four runs on three hits, with only one of those runs being earned.  We were unable to record the strike out of a Harrison County batter.

With the loss, the Mustangs drop our fifth consecutive decision, albeit against quality competition, and fall to .500 at 8-8.  We will have the chance to avenge one of those losses on Wednesday as we will meet up with Holy Cross for the third time this season at 5pm on Wednesday at St. Mary.